- Sep 22, 2013
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This consumerism-sarcasm vignette (my final one!) was inspired by the controversial David Fincher film Fight Club.
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A bunch of teddy bears were stolen from Toys 'R Us (in Maryland) on the evening (late night) of Black Friday (at about 1 am). The security-guard was tranquilized and claimed a repair-man showed up telling him he got an emergency call about an electrical problem from inside the building the computer-operator monitor informed him about on a phone call. The teddy bears were then arrayed across the steps of the Baltimore Aquarium painted in various colors so as to represent the Care Bears (the American rainbow-soaring fictional children's cartoon bear characters symbolizing optimism and friendship). President Trump said in the press, "This is more offensive than North Korea!"
Two months later, more teddy bears were stolen, from a Toys 'R Us store in Texas, and this time the teddy bears (still arrayed to resemble painted Care Bears) were laid across the football field of Texas University. President Trump said in the press, "This is as offensive as North Korea!" No one knew what to make of these strange apparent consumerism-sarcasm gestures, especially (besides the thefts) since they were nonviolent protests of some kind and therefore completely harmless. However, a precocious young journalist and cartoonist working for the San Francisco Chronicle named Robert Blacksmith had a theory (which he intended to advertise and hype).
"It is my (Robert Blacksmith) contention that these consumerism terrorism gestures (though rather harmless acts of nonviolent anti-capitalism protests directed at the Trump Administration) are meant to draw our attention to the fact that Americans should be more concerned about the fact that we've elected a casino-magnate (Trump Taj Mahal) as U.S. President. Remember folks, when our last 'celebrity-president' (actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan) was enforcing his unusual 'consumerism-geared' economic policy, Americans were rather blithe to its consequences (before it was too late --- generating generations of consumerism critics and possibly generating anti-Western sentiments building up to the traumatic attack on the World Trade Center in NYC in 2001. My hypothesis is that the culprit(s) behind these 'Care Bears Trophies' is a person/group professing to be 'Capitalism Nostradamuses,' so I suggest that President Trump employ a PR policy to reach out to the people more to curry support for his overtly pro-commerce initiatives! I am also convinced these consumerism protesters are somehow (and for some reason) 'inspired' by the Ayn Rand-esque pedestrianism-anarchism David Fincher film Fight Club. May consumerism/capitalism succeed over the forces of dystopia, and may all miscreants and terrorists think fondly of the Care Bears every Devil's Night (the night of ritual mischief falling the night before Halloween), especially those falling on Saturday night in America."
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A bunch of teddy bears were stolen from Toys 'R Us (in Maryland) on the evening (late night) of Black Friday (at about 1 am). The security-guard was tranquilized and claimed a repair-man showed up telling him he got an emergency call about an electrical problem from inside the building the computer-operator monitor informed him about on a phone call. The teddy bears were then arrayed across the steps of the Baltimore Aquarium painted in various colors so as to represent the Care Bears (the American rainbow-soaring fictional children's cartoon bear characters symbolizing optimism and friendship). President Trump said in the press, "This is more offensive than North Korea!"
Two months later, more teddy bears were stolen, from a Toys 'R Us store in Texas, and this time the teddy bears (still arrayed to resemble painted Care Bears) were laid across the football field of Texas University. President Trump said in the press, "This is as offensive as North Korea!" No one knew what to make of these strange apparent consumerism-sarcasm gestures, especially (besides the thefts) since they were nonviolent protests of some kind and therefore completely harmless. However, a precocious young journalist and cartoonist working for the San Francisco Chronicle named Robert Blacksmith had a theory (which he intended to advertise and hype).
"It is my (Robert Blacksmith) contention that these consumerism terrorism gestures (though rather harmless acts of nonviolent anti-capitalism protests directed at the Trump Administration) are meant to draw our attention to the fact that Americans should be more concerned about the fact that we've elected a casino-magnate (Trump Taj Mahal) as U.S. President. Remember folks, when our last 'celebrity-president' (actor-turned-politician Ronald Reagan) was enforcing his unusual 'consumerism-geared' economic policy, Americans were rather blithe to its consequences (before it was too late --- generating generations of consumerism critics and possibly generating anti-Western sentiments building up to the traumatic attack on the World Trade Center in NYC in 2001. My hypothesis is that the culprit(s) behind these 'Care Bears Trophies' is a person/group professing to be 'Capitalism Nostradamuses,' so I suggest that President Trump employ a PR policy to reach out to the people more to curry support for his overtly pro-commerce initiatives! I am also convinced these consumerism protesters are somehow (and for some reason) 'inspired' by the Ayn Rand-esque pedestrianism-anarchism David Fincher film Fight Club. May consumerism/capitalism succeed over the forces of dystopia, and may all miscreants and terrorists think fondly of the Care Bears every Devil's Night (the night of ritual mischief falling the night before Halloween), especially those falling on Saturday night in America."
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